Obituary: Brinton Taylor Darlington

Brinton Taylor Darlington

SEATTLE, Wash. – Formerly of Augusta, Dr. Brinton Darlington left this world on Dec. 19, 2023, a few weeks before his 102nd birthday. Honesty, perseverance, thriftiness and a dry sense of humor guided him throughout his life. His accomplishments were many: he became an Eagle Scout at the age of 13; graduated from Ohio University in 1943, and Syracuse Medical School in 1945; and completed his medical training at St. Luke’s Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio and a residency at the Marine Hospital in Staten Island, N Y. There, he worked out of a mobile x-ray van to detect tuberculosis during the national TB epidemic.

Brint served his country from 1942 to 1952 in the U.S. Army, Coast Guard and Public Health Service, the latter in a Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Fort Stanton, N.M.

He and wife Alice (Reeves) moved their growing family to Portland in 1952 and to Augusta in 1954. There, Brint joined the Dirigo Clinic as an internal medicine physician, and later established his own private practice. He also served the medical community as president of both the Maine Tuberculosis and Maine Heart Associations and as Maine’s representative on the National TB and American Medical Associations.

Brint and Alice retired to Saddlebrook, a golfing community north of Tucson, Arizona in 2014. In 2017 they made their last move, to an assisted living center in Seattle, Wash., near daughter, Ann. Alice passed away at the age of 95 in 2019.

Brint is survived by; daughter, Linda Darlington, Linda’s spouse, Hunter Townsend, his grandson Bill Gammon and great-grandson Tyler Gammon; daughter, Ann Darlington, Ann’s spouse Jim Elsea, and his grandson David Elsea; and daughter, Martha Darlington and her spouse Dana White.

He was previously deceased by daughter, Gail Darlington in 2006.

Brint’s compassion and wit will be sorely missed.

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